Information contained on this page is provided by an independent third-party content provider. If you are affiliated with this page and would like it removed please contact pressreleases@franklyinc.com After months of interface development and testing at the University of California Irvine (UCI), Docbot, a medical informatics company, officially announced today its suite of artificial intelligence-driven applications for colonoscopy procedures. Collectively called Qualoscopy, the applications are designed to assist gastroenterologists in real-time. According to the Center for Disease Control, about 15 million colonoscopies were performed in the United States alone in 2012.

Image has been cropped for size. Docbot doesn't exactly make the sci-fi physician-replacement robots that its name may imply, but it is making strides towards building more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools for the clinical setting. The California startup today unveiled an AI workflow suite for colonoscopies--and it believes it can develop a validated, commercially available version in the next few months. Put simply, Qualoscopy--as the system is called--is part diagnostic support tool, part automated scribe. It applies AI to polyp detection but also integrates in electronic health records (EHR) systems to auto-document procedures and associated quality measures.